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Subject: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,buzzmebergr@gmail.com Date: 29 Oct 05 - 08:13 PM Hi I am trying to create a list of songs about chickens for an imaginary CD compilation: if you know any songs about chickens please help add to the list, I admit there are a few by Louis Jordan, but that the reason the quest started. Charlie Parker: YARDBIRD SUITE Louis Jordan: AIN'T NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS, THAT CHICK'S TOO YOUNG TO FRY, A CHICKEN AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A BIRD, COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO. Dr Alimantado: THE BEST DRESSED CHICKEN IN TOWN Jaco Pastorius (although he didn't write it): SOUL INTRO/THE CHICKEN Amon Tobin: LIKE REGULAR CHICKENS Rufus Thomas: FRIED CHICKEN THE CHICKEN DANCE (horrible song played at weddings) Jimmy Smith: BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK. Well all is good, Stay cool, BergR |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: weelittledrummer Date: 29 Oct 05 - 08:56 PM there was the spitting image song - wave a chicken in the air, which was number one in England LITTLE RED ROOSTER there was a roy rogers song [MY CHICKASHAY GAL] that went, got a slick chick a-waiting in a chikasay home, from a chickasay girl I'll never more roam there was the wartime classic - say little hen, tell me when when when, will you lay me an egg for my tea and as the chinese ventriloquist said, fancy a click cluck? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Elmer Fudd Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:13 PM Chicken is Nice -- sung by Dave Van Ronk C-H-I-C-K-E-N -- sung by Mississippi John Hurt? (I heard Geoff Muldaur sing it) Little Red Rooster -- sung by Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton and also Mick Jagger Something about chickens who weren't laying eggs. Last lines are: "They're laying eggs now just like they used too Since that rooster came in our yard." I Had a Little Rooster by the Barnyard Gate And that little rooster was my playmate... |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Joybell Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:31 PM "The Chicken Reel" can have words if you do chicken noises to it. Also "Water Bound" starts with "Chickens crowin' in the old cornfield..." Cheers, Joy |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Ferrara Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:46 PM (All the Little ) Chickens in the Garden, see DT for more info "Turkey in the Straw" has chicken verses. My mother sang: "Oh, we had a little chicken and she had a wooden leg, 'Twas the best little hen that ever laid an egg, It was the finest little hen we ever had around the farm, And another little drink wouldn't do me any harm." Bill's family sang this verse to Turkey in the Straw: "Oh, we had a little chicken and it had a wooden leg, So we poured hot water up and down its leg, Oh the little chicken hollered and the little chicken begged, And the little chicken laid a hard boiled egg." |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Ferrara Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:51 PM We had some chickens, no eggs would they lay, We had some chickens, no eggs would they lay; One day a rooster came into our yard, He caught those chickens right off their guard. They're laying eggs now, just like they used ter, Ever since that rooster came into our yard (repeat) We had a cow, no milk would she give (repeat) One day that rooster came into our yard, He caught that cow right off her guard. She's giving egg nog, like she never used ter, Ever since that rooster came into our yard (repeat) We had a dog, no pups would she give (repeat) One day that rooster, etc She's laying pooched eggs, like she never used ter, Ever since that rooster came into our yard (repeat) Have forgotten the rest, maybe Bill will add some verses. Or Dick Greenhaus, he's bound to know more.... Rita |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: KT Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:55 PM Ghost Chickens in the Sky here |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: The Walrus Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:56 PM Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken (lay a little egg for me) If you want to stretch a point, you could include "The Birdie Song" (species not given). W |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Oct 05 - 10:04 PM Ferrara, that's The Rooster, which is in the Digital Tradition. In another thread, somebody posted this verse: We had a rooster, no love would he give. We had a rooster, no love would he give. One day another rooster came into our yard and caught that rooster right off of his guard. He's laying hens now, just like he used to . . . -Joe Offer- Some of these are listed above, but here's what I see listed in the Digital Tradition:
There are other "cock" songs, but maybe we shouldn't get into them... |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Janie Date: 29 Oct 05 - 10:43 PM In the DT also "Who Broke the Lock". (on the henhouse door) Riley Puckett's version is probably the best known. Janie |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST Date: 29 Oct 05 - 10:53 PM "Chicken Cordon Blues" -Steve Goodman "Thus Clucked Henrietta" Ray Stevens |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:01 PM GALLO DEL CIELO (Tom Russell) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:07 PM Cluck Old Hen - Tom Ashley, Frank Profitt, Wayfaring Strangers & others |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: starfishian Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:47 PM Willie and the Poor Boys (a Jimmy Page/Bill Wyman project) - "Chicken Shack Boogie". I can find it if you need it. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Bard Judith Date: 30 Oct 05 - 12:12 AM "And we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes, And we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes, And we'll kill the old red rooster, we'll kill the old red rooster, We'll kill the old red rooster when she comes...." |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Goose Gander Date: 30 Oct 05 - 12:13 AM "Chicken in a Graveyard" by the Thingz Fine-feathered friend in a long black veil, Fowl intentions leave me pale. Chicken in a graveyard got his eyes on you. Beady little eyes as cold as death, Finger-lickin' claws choke away your breath. Chicken in a graveyard got his eyes on you. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Fullerton Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:21 PM Chicken Reel - Les Paul (Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup) You're Sitting On The Chicken - By Ian Dury Evidentally Chickentown - John Cooper-Clarke. (ok so its a poem but its got musical accompaniment and its funny) Dirty Rooster. - Slim Gaillard. A very strange record indeed. It consists of two vocalists, almost certainly intoxicated, doing chicken noises over a groovy jazz rhythm section. BUT Listen more carefuly and they are clear singing..... " F**k off, F**k off, F**k off, F**k off, F**k off, F**k off. " etc ad lib ad inf. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: ranger1 Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:30 PM There's also "Dixie Chicken", a song that I only remember because I hate it so much. Covered by Little Feat and Garth Brooks. |
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Subject: RE: Hens Forth,Songs about chickens From: Severn Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:43 PM The original hit version of "Chicken Shack Boogie" was by Amos Milburn. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Laurent Date: 30 Oct 05 - 02:12 PM Let's try a French one, sung by French singer Jacques Dutronc. I don't know whether he wrote it but it really sound like a traditionnal lively marching song. It's really up to date. Ma poule n'a plus qu'vingt-neuf poulets (twice) Elle en avait trente, la poule a (nomally, an accent is needed) ma tante. Allongeons la jambe, la jambe car la route est longue. Ma poule n'a plus qu'vingt-huit poulets... And so on until only one remains. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens to recoop your losses From: Severn Date: 30 Oct 05 - 02:13 PM Companion verses to add to Bill D. verse to "Tukey In The Straw" that ferrara gave: Well, I had a little chicken and it wouldn't lay an egg So I poured hot chocolate up and down its leg And the pour chicken cried and the poor chicken begged And the poor little chicken laid an Easter Egg Well I had a little chicken and it wouldn't lay an egg So I poured some soy sauce up and down its leg And the poor chicken cried and the poor chicken begged And the poor little chicken laid an Egg Foo Young. (collected in the field from three young American ladies my friends and I tried to pick up in Mexico City years ago, but that's another story....) "Crow Black Chicken"-Originally recorded by The Leake County Revellers on a 78, it was later covered by The New Lost City Ramblers on the Folkways LP "Volume 4", and in a slide guitar based version by Ry Cooder on "Boomer's Story" on Reprise. "Lock On The Chicken Coop Door" came from The shelor Family and was recorded on an LP by Half Shaved on "Downhome Homemade Oldtime Music" on Flying Crow Records. "Run Chicken Run"-an old Link Wray instrumental hit Dave Swarbrick recorded the fiddle tune "The Hens March Through The Midden" a mumber of times. NRBQ recorded an instrumental called "Trouble In The Henhouse" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Susan of DT Date: 30 Oct 05 - 02:36 PM Search the DT for chicken, hen, cock, and rooster. You will get some extraneous hits, but there are plenty. One of the song circles we go to has chicken as the topic of the next sing, so I ran the searches for chicken and cock - you get many pages. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 30 Oct 05 - 02:39 PM ROBERT'S ROOSTER By Jerry Rasmussen CHORUS: Robert's Rooster is Red and his dog Jack is black And they never talk back to their Mother And when it would rain, they would never complain They would sit ans they'd play by the hour Verses: Sometimes they would sail on teh stormy sea And the wind it would roar and howl Jack would cover his eyes, and the rooster would hide While Robert stood watch on the bow Sometimes they would play at the big parade And they'd march all around the room Robert carried the fowl and the dog he would howl And the rooster would carry the tune And when they got tired of playing The dog would curl up on the floor And Robert would lie with his rooster beside And Jack would look happy and snore HERBERT by Jerry Rasmussen He came a riding in to town in a great big Cadillac With the windows all rolled down, tied in a gunny sack But the sack was for potatoes, and hot for Herbert's kind And with his spurs as sharp as razors, he cut the ties that bind CHORUS: And Herbert was a terror of the local countryside Sometimes he'd flag the neighbor's cat, and he'd take him for a ride And there never was a man or beast who could make him miss a step And you can bet your bottom dollar, he hasn't met one yet When Herbert strolled the neighborhood, the squirrels stayed in their nests The dogs would look the other way, and the cats would genuflect And the pigeons in my Dad's garage got up to bar the door For those who messed with Herbvert, were never seen no more We took him to my Uncle's farm, when I had to move away The roosters met him at the gate, just to have a little play But when he rode them 'round the Farm, their enthusiasm waned And I swear he'd jump them through a hoop he had them so well trained Robert's Rooster was written many years ago for my son, Gideon when he was a little boy. Herbert was a banty rooster. My friend Earl sold him to me with a Harley David Motorcycle for $90. I kept him a year until I went away to college and had to take him to my Uncle's farm. He did indeed ride on the back of the neighbor's cat when the cat was foolish enough to enter our yard. And then, if we're talking about chicken songs, there's always Coward Of The County. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Roosters & Roasters For The Roster From: Severn Date: 30 Oct 05 - 03:33 PM "The Chicken & The Hawk" on "Joe Turner's Greatest Hits" on Atlantic and by The Nighthawks on "Trouble" on Powerhouse. Rooster Blues-Lightnin' Slim on "Sound Of The Swamp: The Best Of Excello Records" on Rhino as well as other places. Old Hen Cackle-Coleman & Harper on "Down In The Basement-Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s, 1926-1937" on Old Hat "Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon"-Beale Street Shieks on the Biograph LP "Mississippi & Beale Street Shieks 1927-1932" Didn't Rufus Thomas also do "The Funky Chicken"? ....And one final question... That "Chicken In The Graveyard" Michael Morris cited a few posts back WAS a "Poultry-Giest", wasn't it? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Oct 05 - 03:39 PM There's also a wonderful poem about a chicken who is swept off the deck of a full-rigged ship in the Sundra Strait and is happily rescued. It's called "Hen Overboard." Nautical singer Bob Webb recorded an entire CD of chicken related songs just recently but failed to include the one above. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Goose Gander Date: 30 Oct 05 - 04:21 PM Yes, indeed, a poultry-geist. I received a whole chicken in a can for my birthday last month (from my brother, who gives me nothing but gag gifts). So now a song screams to be written.... "Chicken in a Can-Can" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: KT Date: 30 Oct 05 - 04:33 PM Walks like a chicken, talks like a chicken, but it ain't no armadillo!!! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 30 Oct 05 - 04:47 PM Paul Stamler at KDHX in St. Louis has compiled a CD of chicken songs. Our own Seamus Kennedy ahs a GREAT song called "Fishin' For Chickens" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Elmer Fudd Date: 30 Oct 05 - 05:03 PM Is there a song that went along with the dance, the Funky Chicken? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: weelittledrummer Date: 30 Oct 05 - 09:29 PM eric taylor - chicken Pie Ry Cooder- ever since the big crap game, I been living on chicken and wine I'm a leader of society, since I got mine |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 30 Oct 05 - 09:59 PM The klezmer band, Kapelye, did a song about Chicken on one of their albums, sorry I don't remember any details. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: CHICKEN SONG (Jay Ungar) From: GUEST,Henryp Date: 31 Oct 05 - 08:09 AM Two, different, songs from Jeff Warner and Jeff Davis "C-H-I-C-K-E-N," Jeff Warner & Jeff Davis on TWO LITTLE BOYS WD 102(self-released) CHICKEN SONG Jay Ungar (c) 1986 Swinging Door Music BMI sung by Jeff Warner & Jeff Davis on Old Time Songs For Kids, WD 101 In these inflationary times some folks got lots of bread, But we're still paying through the nose just to keep our family fed. We tried to change our diet and get something cheaper to eat, We're eatin' lots more chicken now, and a whole lot less red meat. CHORUS: Chicken, chicken, put 'em in a pot, Cook 'em up most any way, Tell you what you got: [What?] Chicken in a pot. When you go to a butcher just to get yourself that bird, Make sure you got the whole thing, 'cause you can use it all, I've heard. You can cook the eggs, and gnaw the bones, and eat up all of that meat, Stuff a pillow with the feathers, and make a soup out of the feet. Well, eatin' all these chickens, I'm sure that it's a sin. It seems their lives have just begun before we do them in. I been doin' a little calculatin' and I'll tell you right now, It takes 543 chickens just to make up one old cow. Well, I've had 'em fried, broiled, braised, curried, baked, and creamed, Cordon bleu'd, and barbecued. I can see them in my dreams: Croquette, cutlet, almondine, paprikash, and fricassee. It's time to switch to tofu and set your chicken free. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Splott Man Date: 31 Oct 05 - 08:46 AM All Birds Look Like Chickens To Me by Irving Jones published 1899. Still popular with jazz bands around south Wales |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: moongoddess Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:28 AM Bob Webb has a CD out called "Cluck Old Hen" - Celebrating 150 years of the Rhode Island Red. Some of the songs were already mentioned, but here is the whole list: Cacklin' Hen Who Broke the Lock I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows Waterbound Cluck Old Hen Banty Rooster Banty Rooster Blues Ragtime Joe (C-H-I-C-K-E-N) Mornin' Blues Soldier's Joy Pullet Surprise(Chicken Reel) Pretty Crowing Chicken Mister Chicken Crow Black Chicken Free Little Bird A great CD! My favorite is Ragtime Joe. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Wayne Mitchell Date: 31 Oct 05 - 01:08 PM Run, Run, Chicken Run, sung by The Serendipity Singers on their We Belong Together album (1966?), attributed to Galbraith/Teifer/Marens, (possibly related to the Link Wray instrumental which Severn mentioned?) An Peata Circe (The Pet Hen) For just a mention of chickens: Sourwood Mountain It Ain't Gonna Rain No More Egg-suckin' Dog |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,bbc at work Date: 01 Nov 05 - 11:21 AM My very favorite is Fishin' for Chickens, already mentioned as being in the DT. It was brought to my attention by our own Dharmabum, sung by him at a past Old Songs Festival. Great memory, that! best, bbc |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST Date: 02 Nov 05 - 08:09 AM not a song, but a great fiddle tune Jenny's Chickens http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/756 Very often played before Bonnie Kate, the pairing being popularised by Michael Coleman |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Robin Madge Date: 02 Nov 05 - 08:26 AM I did write a tune called "Pullet and see" to go with "The hens march to the midden" when I was performing with Hen's Teeth. Robin Madge |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Snuffy Date: 02 Nov 05 - 08:53 AM PICKIN' A CHICKEN (Paddy Roberts / Derek Bernfield / Garfield De Mortimer). Recorded by Eve Boswell 1955, and Jim Reeves - 1956. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Steve-o Date: 02 Nov 05 - 12:28 PM There's a great blues song done by Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan called "Chicken-a-la-Blues". |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: curmudgeon Date: 02 Nov 05 - 04:15 PM The aforementioned Bob Webb chicken CD is available here. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Artful Codger Date: 02 Nov 05 - 05:01 PM Might have been mentioned before: "Chicken on a Raft", recorded on the eponymous album of sea shanties by The Young Tradition. The Watersons' "I Went to Market". Not just about chickens, but the hen and cock figure predominantly. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: open mike Date: 03 Nov 05 - 01:10 AM there is a great kids song called chickens for peace it is by..Peter Alsop...see: www.peteralsop.com |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Celtaddict Date: 03 Nov 05 - 01:31 AM The talking chicken round has been mentioned on another thread. Sandra Boynton (yes, the one who makes the hippo greeting cards) wrote a musical, never produced but available in a truly funny book-and-CD set, called "The Philadelphia Chickens." |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: weelittledrummer Date: 03 Nov 05 - 11:59 PM yes indeed The watersons - all the little chickens in your garden , or something like that from the pence and Spicey Ale album - Mike Waterson - or maybe my memoriy is leaking |
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Subject: Lyr Add: CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICKEN (LAY From: Jim Dixon Date: 10 Nov 05 - 08:31 AM Transcribed from the sound file at http://www.aardvarkmastering.com/edison.htm : CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICKEN (LAY A LITTLE EGG FOR ME) Fred Holt, Thos. McGhee & Irving King [As recorded by Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies on Edison Diamond Disk #51745-R.] 1. Now good old farmer Haystack (?) is the cleverest of men. He cuts a rasher off a pig and then shouts to a hen: CHORUS: Oh, chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, lay a little egg for me. Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, I want one for my tea. Oh, I haven't had an egg since Easter, and now it's half past three, So, chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, lay a little egg for me. 2. Now, Rip Van Winkle woke up after twenty years or more. He found a bird's nest in his beard and shouted out, "Oh, Lor'!" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: sharyn Date: 10 Nov 05 - 03:00 PM Carol Denney has a song called "Roll Chickens Roll." The chorus is "Roll, chickens, roll. Fry, chickens, fry. I hang around the deli And it helps the time go by. Roll, chickens, roll Fry, chickens, fry Nothing's been the same here Since the day you said goodbye." |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,buzzmebergr@gmail.com Date: 10 Nov 05 - 04:41 PM So many songs about chickens, i truly am amazed, thanks to all the peoples for their help, and i am working through the list slowly. stay Cool, BergR |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BETSY BRENNAN'S BLUE HEN From: GEST Date: 10 Nov 05 - 09:39 PM BETSY BRENNAN'S BLUE HEN
From the widow McKenny I bought for a penny,
May his whiskers turn green when he eats a crubeen,
Oh, this hen she had dozens of nephews and cousins,
May her stockings fall down when she goes out of town,
I bought from Port Saunders that hen and two ganders,
May the ravenous baste burst her blouse at the waist,
I would search the seas over from Boston to Dover,
May the measles and gout when he chance to go out,
May his pipe never smoke, may his tea pot be broke,
May his clothes be in rags and his trousers bread bags,
####.... Johnny Burke (1851-1930) as published by Gerald S Doyle Ltd. in Old-Time Songs And Poetry Of Newfoundland (1927); 4th edition, p.76 (1966); 5th edition, p.58 (1978) ....####
From the Dictionary Of Newfoundland English:
Archived at GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE ROOSTER FROM KITCHUSIS From: GEST Date: 10 Nov 05 - 09:50 PM THE ROOSTER FROM KITCHUSIS
Come all ye good people I'll sing you a song,
For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
His owner would swear that he stood five feet tall,
For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
Now, when he was a baby, a bare six weeks old,
For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
Then the farmer's poor wife who went out for the eggs,
For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
Now, Kitchusis it sits in Conception Bay,
For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle, Spoken: Well, I tell you if you don't get that rooster outta here,
####.... Dick Nolan (Welcome Aboard, Boot BTM 2008, Maritime Series, 1984) ....####
Archived at GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST Date: 11 Nov 05 - 04:41 AM ...and the little ones chewed on the bones oh ... |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: weelittledrummer Date: 11 Nov 05 - 05:55 AM I seem to remeber an old song that went Cock a doodle doo Cock a doodle do me cocks me own so leave it alone Its nothing to do with you Ken Penny and his gang used to sing it at The Jolly Porter in Exeter way back in the 70's, I bet Tony Rose did. also when I was a kid there was this novelty song I'm a bow legged chicken You're a knock kneed hen Never been so happy, since I don't know when Walk a with wiggle and a giggle and a squawk Doing the Tenessee wig walk! Somebody out there reassure me I was not the only one to witness these miracles. all the best al |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GLoux Date: 11 Nov 05 - 08:19 AM Here's an old thread about a chicken song that I'm still trying to decipher. The order of posts is screwed up, so don't get confused... -Greg |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Howard Kaplan Date: 11 Nov 05 - 08:02 PM There's also Malvina Reynolds' "The Little Red Hen"; the complete lyrics are already posted on another thread: thread.cfm?threadid=40846 |
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Subject: Lyr Add: CHICKEN IN BLACK (from Johnny Cash) From: GUEST,Stormy Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:10 PM Chicken in Black by Johnny Cash CHICKEN IN BLACK Recorded by Johnny Cash Recorded in Key of A w/change to Bb CAPO: 5th FRET/KEY: A/PLAY: E: E/A/B7 INTRO: E/A/B7/E [E] For two long years my head hurt bad So a [A] doctor checked me an he shook his head He said [B7] I'm sorry to tell you But your body's outlived your brain [E] He said I know this doctor in New York, son And he'll [A] fix you right up with a brand new one So the [B7] head doctor met me When I stepped down off of the train. [E] [E] He said we had this bank robber killed last night His [A] body's shot but his brain's alright I'll [B7] give you a transplant, boy And you'll be OK [E] I got my new brain in and I was feelin' great I went [A] right back to Nashville with no headache But something [B7] strange happened When I walked in the bank one day. [E] CHORUS I said [A] stick 'em up ever'body I'm robbin' this place Drop [E] all of your money in my guitar case Don't [A] nobody move and don't nobody reach for that [B7] door A [E] lady said, why you're Johnny Cash I said [A] no ma'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash And I [B7] am the best bank robber in New York. [E] [E] Now the other night Roy Acuff called me He said [A] John I'd like for you to do the Opry So I [B7] went out on the stage, but I couldn't sing [E] I got into a half a verse of 'I Walk The Line' And [A] something snapped in this head of mine I yelled [B7] stick 'em up - Give me your money, your watches and rings. [E] Change to F: F/Bb/C7 [F] Well, I called New York and talked to that brain quack And said [Bb] Doc I gotta have my old brain back He said I'm [C7] sorry there, Mr. Cash, but I can't do that [F] He said I put your brain in a chicken last monday He's [Bb] singing your songs and makin' lots of money And I got him [C7] signed to a ten-year recording contract.[F] [F] Now friends if you see me walkin' down the street Remember [Bb] what you see ain't necessarily me And if I [C7] try to hold you up, don't pay me no mind [F] But when you got ten bucks that you can blow You oughta [Bb] catch that Johnny Chicken show He's doin' [C7] fairs and concert dates All up and down the line. [F] I said [Bb] stick 'em up ever'body I'm robbin' this place Drop [F] all of your money in my guitar case Don't [Bb] nobody move and don't nobody reach for that door [C7] A [F] lady said, why you're Johnny Cash I said [Bb] no ma'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash And I [C7] am the best bank robber in New York. [F] TAG: TALK: Well, I don't pay any income tax... You don't pay tax on money you steal... You oughta catch that Johnny Chicken show... Chicken In Black! hmmmmmmmm! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Zamboo Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:14 PM And the best chicken song of all ... "Ghost Chickens in the Sky" by Whitt and Judy McKinney (The McKinney Washtub Two). Always a show-stopper. Done to the tune of you-know-what, with that great chorus singalong: "buck-buck-buck-BAWKKK, buck-buck-buck-BAWKKK, ghost chickens in the sky-y-y-y-y." |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Dani Date: 12 Nov 05 - 10:19 AM De Colores, where you get to make the sounds of the whole chicken family! Dani |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST Date: 12 Nov 05 - 10:28 AM Should be a chicken verse in 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm' |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Susan B Date: 12 Nov 05 - 11:57 AM What about the "Grand Upstanding Bantam Cock" sung by Jake Thakerey? Not certain whether this is one of his originals or a translation from a French song. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: ME COCK'S ME OWN From: GEST Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:07 AM Al, the Wee Little Drummer, mentioned the song Me Cock's Me Own, so I thought I'd add it a bit belatedly to this thread. GEST
Me Cock's Me Own
One Saturday afternoon I went out for a walk,
Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
I put me cock under me coat and down the road I strolled,
Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
I took me cock out for a row and the boat began to rock,
Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
I took me cock home and then I put him in the pen,
Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
Well, fellers, I got to go, I got to be on me way,
Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
####.... Author unknown. Variant of a 19th century British traditional ....####
Recorded by Jenny and Josie Wilkinson of Point Rexton, Trinity Bay, NL (Now And Then, Ambassador Records, 1996). Also recorded by Chuck Simms from Grand Bank, NL (Campfire Songs, Atlantic Seabreeze Records, 2003)
Also recorded by Simon Ritchie and his So-Called Band (Melodeon Mania, X-Tradition TMM1911CD, 1998) who remembers this song being well known in country farrming pubs, but says it may have started life in the London music halls of the 1800s. Simon told GEST he learned it from Hubert 'Sugar' Bailey from Essex, England, who Simon recorded in the mid-1980s when 'Sugar' was in his sixties. Simon added bits from other singers such as the late Ted Chaplin of Suffolk and added a couple verses of his own through the folk process. Simon has heard the song referred to as The Comical Cock, but Me Cock's Me Own is his title for it. Simon and his band still sing it in the pub on a 'good' night (or day).
Archived at GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador |
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Subject: Lyr Add: FAST FOOD SONG (Fast Food Rockers) From: The Villan Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:34 AM Artist: Fast Food Rockers Song: FAST FOOD SONG Can I take your order please? Let's eat to the beat (Chorus) A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut. A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut. McDonalds, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut. McDonalds, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut. You like it you love it You know you really want it The voices I hear Whenever you're around I want it I need it Nothing else can beat it Hot and spicy Whenever I'm in town (mm mm) Enticing exciting Aroma so inviting And when it hits Me, I wanna take you home Trust me you must see Just what you're doing to me Driving me crazy Hungry to the bone I think of you and lick my lips You've got the taste I can't resist Can't resist - can't resist Let's eat to the beat (Repeat Chorus) Would you like that to go? Any sauces? You're so sweet and you're neat You knock me off my two feet You're chunky and hunky I'm coming back for more (Hot Dog) Your taste all embraces I gotta sing your praises Just savor the flavors Waiting at your door I think of you and lick my lips You've got the taste I can't resist Can't resist - can't resist Let's eat to the beat (Repeat Chorus) Does anyone fancy a shake? Shake Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Shake it to the left - Shake it to the right - Let's shake Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh I think of you and lick my lips You've got the taste I can't resist Can't resist - can't resist Let's eat to the beat (Repeat Chorus) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Jack Campin Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:40 AM There is also a pipe march "The Hen's March" (no relation to the "to the midden" one) and a pipe tune "The Cockerel in the Creel". The story behind that one is that when the composer was a boy, his strict Presyterian mother tried to stop their cockerel from making un-Christian noises on the Sabbath by caging it in a lobster creel. The cockerel didn't think much of this and said so, the resulting sounds being the basis of the tune. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:49 AM There was a belter 12-bar from Stackridge, circa 1972, Keep on Cluckin' Can't remember all the words but some of them are: Way down on old Sam McGurky's spread Things are happenin' in his brand new shed He's sold his wife and seven kids And bought a thousand chickens instead. chorus It's a super[something], [something][something] Super market, super chicken time Give a booster to your rooster Have a hundred per cent potential diamond mine But you'd better keep on cluckin' Or you'll end up on the factory line! Six lonely bantems sitting on a wall Along came a farmer and now there's none at all One went to Tesco, one went to [Dell?] The rest are pushing daisies coz they wouldn't sell. So won't you listen all you L-brained dudes When you open up your barbecues Have the low-down at the ho-down and you ain't got nothin' to lose. chorus to fade ... plus much clucking Clucking good song. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: TonyK Date: 02 Dec 05 - 02:42 PM Parody of When a Man Loves a Woman, When a Man Loves a Chicken by Bob Rivers. Not suited for polite company, but good though. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,guest Date: 25 Apr 07 - 11:46 AM How about "How do you like your eggs in the morning?" - Dean Martin |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,lyn Date: 25 Oct 09 - 01:35 AM Ozark Mountain Daredaredeveils have a great song "Chicken Train" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Thompson Date: 25 Oct 09 - 02:21 AM Tá an coileach ag fogairt an lae |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: eddie1 Date: 25 Oct 09 - 06:46 AM Another verse for "The Rooster" We had elephants, no tusks would they grow These goddam elephants, no tusks would they grow My wife said "Honey, we're losing money These goddam elephants, no tusks will they grow" Until that rooster came into our yard And caught them elephants right off their guard. They're laying eggs now, of solid ivory Ever since that rooster, came into our yard. Eddie |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 25 Oct 09 - 07:58 AM I m surprised I didn't post this before. These are the lyrics to a song I wrote about a Banty Rooster I had as a teenager. He was a throw-in on the deal when I bought my friend Earl's Harley Davidson 125 when he went off to college in Oregon back in 1954. I had to give him to my Uncle when I went away to college the next year. I'll see if I can find the chapter I wrote about him, but these are the lyrics. HERBERT He came a' riding in to town in a great big Cadillac With the windows all rolled down, tied in a gunny sack But the sack was for potatoes, and not for Herbert's kind And with his spurs as sharp as razors, he cut the ties that bind CHORUS: And Herbert was the terror of the local countryside Sometimes he'd flag the neighbor's cat and he'd take him for a ride And there never was a man or beast who could make him miss a step And you can bet your bottom dollar, he hasn't met one yet When Herbert strolled the neighborhood, the squirrels stayed in their nests The dogs all looked the other way, and the cats would genuflect And the pigeons in my Dad's garage got up and barred the door For those who messed with Herbert were never seen no more We took him to my Uncle's farm when I had to move away The roosters met him at the gate, just to have a little play But when he rode them 'round the yard, their enthusiasm waned And I swear he'd jump them through a hoop, he had them so well trained … My Aunt Gladys told me that when she went out into the yard the first night that Herbert was there, all the roosters were settled down in the yard. Except for Herbert. He claimed the hen house all to himself, and was feeling mighty pleased about it. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 25 Oct 09 - 08:00 AM This is the story: How Earl Got Herbert I got Herbert as a throw-in when I bought my friend Earl's Harley Davidson 125 for $90. Herbert was a Banty rooster. How Earl came about getting Herbert is an interesting story. Actually, it's two interesting stories, each of them kinda true. Back in 1953, when Earl and I graduated from High School, Earl headed out to go to college at the University of Oregon, and because they frowned on Banty roosters in their dormitories, Earl reluctantly gave Herbert to me as a going away present. This is the way I remember Earl telling me how he came to have Herbert in the first place. Over the last fifty-some years, the story has become much more ornate. According to what I remember, Earl was out in his front yard one Summer's day, when a car drove by and a Banty rooster came flying out of the rear window. The rooster immediately made a bee-line toward Earl's house and the man jumped out of the car and hit the road, running. The rooster, later to be named Herbert, was running, Hell Bent for Leather when he spotted an unsuspecting squirrel running across the yard. Even though Herbert was running for dear life, he couldn't ignore the challenge of the squirrel, and took off after it. As Herbert came skidding around the corner in hot pursuit of the squirrel, he almost ran into Earl and Earl, being quick of mind and sure-handed reached down and caught the rooster. When the man came around the corner puffing like a steam engine and saw Earl, he hit the brakes and asked Earl for his rooster. Now Earl, being a real slick talker, managed to convince the man that what he really wanted to do was give the rooster to Earl. So, Earl kept the rooster and named him Herbert and when he went away to college in the Fall, he gave Herbert to me. As I said, that's the way I remember Earl telling it. Here is what actually happened, according to Earl in 2006. The rooster did indeed escape from a passing car, but it was someone else who lived across the street who caught it. When he couldn't keep it, he gave it to Earl. Earl has no idea how the rooster came to be called Herbert. There was no hot pursuit of a squirrel, or any slick-talking done by Earl. As I tell Earl, he remembers what happened. I remember how it should have happened. I like my story a lot better. I even had Herbert riding in a Cadillac when I wrote a song about him. Nothing was too good for Herbert. "He came a' riding in to town in a great big Cadillac With the windows all rolled down, tied in a gunny sack But the sack was for potatoes, and not for Herbert's kind And with his spurs as sharp as razors, he cut the ties that bind" So, how did the squirrel get in the story? When I owned Herbert, he was one of the first "Free-range" chickens in the country. Earl kept him tied to a pole with a stout string around one leg. I let Herbert have the run of the yard, and because it wasn't fenced in, he had the run of the whole neighborhood. "When Herbert strolled the neighborhood, the squirrels stayed in their nests The dogs all looked the other way, and the cats would genuflect" Herbert found squirrels to be a personal affront, and he made life Hell for the neighbor's cat and the pigeons I raised in our garage. Early on, the cat made the mistake of stalking Herbert, and when he pounced for the attack, Herbert had mysteriously disappeared. He reappeared just as mysteriously on the cat's back with his spurs dug in as firmly as a rodeo cowboy. Herbert took the cat for a little ride, and it was the last time the cat came within one hundred yards of him. "And Herbert was the terror of the local countryside Sometimes he'd flag the neighbor's cat and he'd take him for a ride And the pigeons in my Dad's garage got up to bar the door For those who messed with Herbert, were never seen no more" So you see, my memory of how Earl got Herbert was about 90% wrong, but it was 100% Herbert. If Earl HAD been the one to catch Herbert, he WOULD have smooth-talked the guy out of his rooster. For something that never happened, I got the story just about right. The next year, when I went away to college, I took Herbert out to my Uncle Jim's farm. But the song tells the rest of the story. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: open mike Date: 25 Oct 09 - 01:03 PM http://www.peteralsop.com/TakeMeWithYou.htm#Chickens here are the lyrics to the song i mentioned earlier: CHICKENS FOR PEACE Chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! And we Don't want to fry! Chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! One little war, And we're chicken-pot-pie! Chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! And no one respects, A chicken who begs! Chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! One little slip, And we're hard boiled eggs! Chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! But we're not chicken chickens! We're taking a stand! Chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! And our chicken spirit Is sweeping the land! The doves and the hawks are still fighting The swans and the ducks are all wet! But us chickens have all been uniting! And what chickens want, chickens get!! We're chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! And we will win! We're not turkeys! (Or geese!) We're chickens for peace! We're chickens for peace! Hold up your beaks and join in! Cause those bombs make hot water That will make chicken soup from the grease Of us chickens for peace! Written by Peter Alsop, ©1985, Moose School Music (BMI) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: muppett Date: 27 Oct 09 - 11:18 AM Deep Fried Chicken to the tune of honky tonk woman (made famous by the Rolling Stones) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: bobad Date: 27 Oct 09 - 11:46 AM The Felice Brothers Run Chicken Run on YouTube. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore Date: 27 Oct 09 - 02:13 PM Mississippi John Hurt did a Chicken Song, just spelling out the word CHICKEN. I don't remember all of it. It starts out: "C", that's the way it begins, "H", the first letter in. etc. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,Barnacle Babe Date: 27 Oct 09 - 03:56 PM The one that came to my mind was about a Rooster... by Bradley Kinkaid. My mom used to sing it to me. I love my rooster, my rooster loves me I play with my rooster neath the green bay tree. My little rooster goes cockledoodle doo de doodle le doodle doodle do I love my cat, my cat loves me I play with my cat neath the green bay tree My little cat goes meow, meow, meow, My little rooster goes cockledoodle doo de doodle le doodle doodle do. I love my dog.... and so on and so on. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Songbob Date: 27 Oct 09 - 04:04 PM Corrections: A Yardbird isn't a chicken. From Wickipedia: 1 : a soldier assigned to a menial task or restricted to a limited area as a disciplinary measure 2 : an untrained or inept enlisted man Charlie Parker (the sax Charlie, not the banjo one) was nicknamed "Yardbird," though I don't recall why. And "Chickasay" is "Chickasaw" (an Indian tribe) in local dialect. That is all. Bob |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST,RickS Date: 28 Oct 09 - 12:53 PM Haven't waded thru the whole thread, but Frank Stokes' 'Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon' is one I like. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Jim Carroll Date: 29 Oct 09 - 04:30 AM This from the singing of Mikey Kelleher - fisherman and curragh maker originally from Quilty, West Clare, but when recorded in the 1970s, a retired building worker then living in Deptford, South East London. Jim Carroll DELANEY'S CHICKEN Now Delaney, from the market bought a fowl a month ago, If he find the man that sold it he'll kill him with a blow; Delaney bought this chicken, being of a tender breed And of a more deceitful bird you never heard agreed. So when they sought to pluck it, their efforts was in vain, Their hands were torn and blistered and their muscles they were strained, And resting of this chicken, they put him down to stew, If you want to see Delaney crack, cry cock-a-doodle-doo. So Delaney bought this chicken for to give us all a spread And after they arriving home they tried to pull off his head, They ordered picks and shovels, they got twisted up like tin, They tried to carve the chicken but they couldn't break the skin. So this bird must have been crowing since they built the Tower of Abel (Babel) He was fed by Cain and Abel and he lived in Noah's Stable, All the shots and shells was fired in the field of Waterloo, Could not penetrate or dislocate the tilugated, armour-plated, double-breasted, iron-chested cock-a-doodle-doo. So they borrowed Daley's rammer, by which he rammed the stones, Thinking that when tapped, would break the tender chicken's bones, But the first one has rebounded like an India-rubber ball, And knocked twelve yards of coping out of Muligan's garden wall. So this bird must have been crowing since.....etc. Oh the Dundee Extra Gunners came to excavate the thing, And the sword he carved the Russian with while light three yards of string (???) Old Tim brought the Davey Miner, through him they showed daylight, While blowing up himself and the chicken with a pound of dynamite. So to scrape the walls for chicken, it wasn't easy work, It wasn't easy to know which was chicken or which was Burke, But they found a leg of chicken on a friendly blacksmith's head, And a pair of everlasting heels upon my boots it made. So this bird it must have been crowing since....etc. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: open mike Date: 29 Oct 09 - 12:45 PM has this one in Spanish been mentioned? Los Pollitos dicen pio pio pio cuando tienen hambre, cuando tienen frio La gallina busca el maiz y el trigo y hasta un otro dia duermen los pollitos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTApI_rUZ2E&NR=1 |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: GUEST Date: 30 Oct 09 - 12:36 PM Did anyone mention Spike Jones' "I Ain't Gonna Take it Sittin' Down"? I only remember a couple of verses: I've heard it said while on the loose You make the rounds with Sarah Goose From all reports of how it looked You tell that goose her goose is cooked Oh, by the way, while you were out I met a movie talent scout He loves my walk, he loves my cluck, He's starrin' me with Donald Duck. I ain't gonna take it sittin' down, I ain't gonna take it sittin' down, You needn't stand around and plead, Quit handin' me that chicken feed, I ain't gonna take it sittin' down! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: David el Gnomo Date: 30 Oct 09 - 01:49 PM Gallo de Ciello - or the Mexican Chicken Song as we used to ask of the late great Jim Couza. Then there is always Sam Cooke's Twisting the night away - He's dancing with the chicken slacks... ...or is that some sort of mondegreen? DeG |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: cetmst Date: 02 Nov 09 - 07:04 AM The Mill Run Dulcimer Band on the album "We Shall Meet" record "Will There Be Any Chickens In Pradise?" atributed to Emily Luertzing and Neal Walters. "This song, straight from Vineland NJ, the egg basket of America, poses the profound philosophical question that haunts us all. With a special guest appearance from the Sister Cluckers". Will there be chickens in Paradise, In that sweet bye and bye, Any roosters and hens all freed of their sins, In that great chicken coop in the sky? Cho: Will there be chickens in Paradise Perched on the throne of our Lord, Hatchin'and layin'and peckin'and prayin', Crowin' a heavenly chord? Will I see my old friends in Paradise, Henrietta and old Chanticleer? I'd be so lonely in Paradise If those sweet little pluckers weren't there. Cho: Will the Colonel be thrown from his heavenly home? Only the future will tell, For the chicken he's et, I'm sure it's a pet. He'll be deep fat fryin'in Hell. Cho: Will there be chickens in Paradise Roostin'in clouds in God's sky? They'll be the only angels in Paradise Too dumb to learn how to fly. Cho: (accomapnied by the Sister Cluckers) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: PHJim Date: 02 Nov 09 - 11:41 AM Here's Hayes Carll's chicken song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTnYj9d2os |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Bill D Date: 02 Nov 09 - 12:41 PM Well, you'll have to decide whether this is about chickens or not. Tex Ritter, "Chicken My Chicken" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about chickens From: Bill D Date: 03 Nov 09 - 05:19 PM refresh...for those who really need another 'chicken' song... |